E138: Terry Crews: How My Porn Addiction Nearly Ended My Marriage

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2022

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Terry Crews is a NFL player turned film and TV star, featuring in a wide range of hugely successful shows like Brooklyn Nine-Nine, White Chicks, Everybody Hates Chris and Idiocracy. Escaping his abusive father, and spending decades cultivating his bodybuilder physique and mentality, Terry then broke into the Hollywood scene.

This episode is the Terry Crews we have never seen before. We talk about some extremely deep, raw material and explore his deeply personal story of his childhood which led him into an addiction to appearing outwardly tough. His journey to where he is now is inspiring and the way he speaks about it is so humbling.

Certain areas of his life that became out of control such as violence, sex, relationships, racism, shame, made him learn how to seek control of himself and his environment. His latest book, Tough: My Journey to True Power, is a moving autobiography where Terry faces these insecurities and distressing memories.

Topics:

What made you the person you are today?
Domestic violence in your family
Where did your dad's pain come from ?
My pornography addiction
How did porn impact your marriage?
Cheating on my wife
Opening up to my wife and its consequences
Why do men avoid intimacy and vulnerability ?
What was your lowest moment ?
Your dad being aggressive in front of your children
How and why did you change?
How would your life be if you wouldn't have changed ?
I was sexually assaulted by a Hollywood executive
How my dark and bright side came from the same place
Our last guest's question

Terry Crews:

https://twitter.com/terrycrews

https://www.instagram.com/terrycrews

Terry's book:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tough-My-Journey-True-Power/dp/0593329805/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1651096152&sr=8-2

Watch the episodes on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDiaryOfACEO/videos

Sponsors:

Huel - https://my.huel.com/Steven

Craftd - https://bit.ly/3JKOPFx

Transcript

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0:00.0	Could you do me a quick favor if you're listening to this please hit the follow or subscribe button
0:03.6	It helps more than you know and we invite subscribers in every month to watch the show in person
0:07.5	My desire to be strong was because I knew one day I may have to kill my father
0:14.2	Athlete artist actor Terry Crew
0:17.7	That's right. I always wanted to be a superhero one of my earliest memories was my father
0:22.6	Not getting my mother up. She'd be nursing a black eye and I was just dancing front of her
0:28.6	And she just start cracking up in the middle of all that pain. I saw the ability to make her laugh
0:35.8	pornography numbing my pain. I had this addiction for the longest time. How did it impact your marriage?
0:43.5	She said I was different
0:46.2	I damaged my family. I damaged my wife
0:49.1	You got to own up to it. You have to do what's within your power to make things right
0:56.5	One thing that changed for me is I stopped competing with people and I said don't try to be the best
1:04.5	be the only
1:06.5	So without further ado, I'm Stephen Bartlett and this is the Diro of a CEO USA edition
1:12.2	I hope nobody's listening, but if you are then please keep this yourself
1:24.4	Terry I always start these conversations in a very similar way, but having read your new book tough
1:29.8	I feel like it's never been more relevant to what I'm about to say reading through your your new book
1:35.9	Especially in the first chapter it becomes so blatantly clear how our early context shapes who we become in many ways and
1:45.3	There's never been a more glaring example of that
1:48.8	So I feel like that has to be the place we start. Can you tell me about that context in which you were raised?
1:56.6	Wow
1:57.9	first and foremost I was raised in
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